Her parents then consented, all parties were agreed I'll plough and sow and reap and mow and you shall sit and spin I said that I would married be and she would be my brideĪnd long we should not tarry and twenty things beside With many kind embraces I stroke her double chin I having time and leisure, I spent a vacant hourĪ-telling of my treasure while sitting in the bower I being somewhat jolly persuaded her to stayĪnd straight I fell a-courting her in hopes her love to win This maid her name was Dolly clothed in a gown of grey Saying how do you do and how do you do and how do you do again Then I began to compliment and she began to sing I went a little further and there I met a maidĪ-going a-milking, a-milking Sir she said
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He wore no shirt upon his back but wool unto his skin This rustic was a thresher as on his way he hiedĪnd with a leather bottle fast buckled by his side Singing how do you do and how do you do and how do you do again
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He was clothed all in leather with a cap beneath his chin I met with an old man a-clothed all in leather One misty moisty morning when cloudy was the weather I seem to remember she invented other verses too to keep the interest going! To keep me moving on the walk my mother used to get me to pretend to ride a horse and she would sing the different verses while I either jumped over or into the ditches, depending which verse she was singing moving to the different rhythms of the song. When we visited my grandmother we had a long walk from the bus down a country road with a verge crossed by frequent shallow drainage ditches. I also remember the ‘down into the ditch’ song also from Listen with Mother. Unfortunately my mother was the one who had a fantastic memory for words, but she passed away 3 years ago, so I have lost that wonderful resource for childhood memories. With the music reversing the notes for the last line ie D back to G (if following the music key above). I can’t remember any more lines except that it ended with – This would fit with Horniman and Sir being feet/legs/boots, but I’m not sure of ‘slippery’ and can’t think what the last word would be. I too remember this from Listen with Mother in the early 1950s and both my mother and I sang it to my children in the 1970s. What weird stuff we were served up to entertain us by Auntie BBC sometimes! Googling the line, I see it's from the song "This Is the Way the Ladies Ride" (so no connection) and it all comes flooding back. I always associate it with the strange song that ended "hobble-dee, and down into a ditch!" accompanied by a scary, banging downward run on the lower notes of the piano to illustrate the fall. It must have been George Dixon's voice and the sparse piano accompaniment that contributed to this too.
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Like a previous poster's mother, I always feel it is a little dark in tone, even though it strives for cheerfulness (I mean, what odd names!). I'll get someone to play me the rest from your transcription (thank you!). The song has often come back to me over the years, but I can only remember the tune of the first four lines. I always understood it to be about boots, though whether Wellington boots or not I don't know. It was on Listen with Mother around 1957-59, when I would have been 3 to 5 years old. You're not alone! I remember Horniman and Sir. Afraid my skills don't quite reach to transcribing the piano part accurately - someone else is welcome to try that once we upload the audio.) Oh, and it's not HORNIMAN - it's HORNYMAN! (I've also added a few simple guitar chords if anyone fancies trying to play it. The sound is a bit blurry on some of the lines, but we're pretty sure it is as you can see here. I won't have time to deal with it properly over the next few busy days, but as a little Christmas present for everyone who's commented on this thread over the past seven years, here's the updated version of the verses. Who wrote it? Who sang it?īREAKING NEWS! 24.12.17 With a great deal of help from Mary, I have acquired an audio recording of the original broadcast. If you happen to remember it, please get in touch! I'm beginning to think I'm the only person on the planet who remembers this song. Whenever I'm walking in the rain, I find it going through my head. I can remember almost all of it except for part of one line. except that I'm sure they sang it quite often. It was probably one of those very ephemeral things that was written for one episode of the programme, sung and forgotten.
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This is a song I remember from very early childhood on BBC's Listen With Mother.